Ikiru
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka, Nobuo Kaneko, Bokuzen Hidari, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
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Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
- Original title
- 生きる
- Original language
- Japanese
- Screenplay
- Shinobu Hashimoto, Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni
- Music
- Fumio Hayasaka
- Cinematography
- Asakazu Nakai
- Cast
- Bokuzen Hidari, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara
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Updated July 22, 2026
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